North Carolina’s combined excise and additional taxes on gasoline of 30.15 cents per gallon (cpg), a figure that doesn’t include the federal excise tax of 18 cpg, is the fifth-highest in the country. It’s only 2.75 cpg lower than the highest, Wisconsin’s (32.9 cpg). NC’s gasoline taxes are well higher than the national mean of 21.51 cpg plus one standard deviation; it’s almost two standard deviations higher than the national mean (that peg would be at 31.57 cpg). (The median tax rate is 20.85 cpg.)
And as has been discussed on the LR before, NC’s gasoline taxes also well higher than those of the border states’. For each gallon of gasoline, North Carolinians pay:
? 8.75 cents more than motorists in Tennessee
? 12.65 cents more than motorists in Virginia
? 13.15 cents more than motorists in South Carolina
? 14.85 cents more than motorists in Georgia
Here is a graph of how all the states’ gasoline taxes compare, with certain features of interest pointed out:
Data source: http://www.taxadmin.org/FTA/rate/motor_fl.html
